It’s time for governments to adopt open innovation in solving problems, developing solutions to challenges

The reality is that we are living through a massive and highly-disruptive economic transformation, with enormous, yet largely unknown, implications for the future of jobs and the competitiveness of Canada’s economy.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured recently on the Hill. It is time for our own governments to adopt open innovation in solving problems and developing solutions to challenges, moving from a world of dark secrecy and information manipulation to open government, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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TORONTO—Finance Minister Bill Morneau has named Dominic Barton, global managing director of the giant international consultancy, McKinsey & Co., to chair his advisory council. Barton, who joined McKinsey in 1986 at the firm’s Toronto office, rose to take on leadership of the firm in 2009. Barton has worldwide experience and he no doubt is in a position to help the government through difficult times. The other members of Morneau’s advisory council will likely be from the business and

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